Anatomie Des Parties De La Génération De L'homme Et De La Femme, Représentées Avec Leurs Couleurs Naturelles, Selon Le Nouvel Art, Jointe À L'angéologie De Tout Le Corps Humain, Et À Ce Qui Concerne La Grossesse Et Les Accouchements by Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty

Wentworth Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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Paris: Chez Delaguette, 1752. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. 1st Edition. No Binding. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (258 x 204 mm), 64 pp., 1 (of 3) engraved colored plate (lacking the plates to p.18 and 64) and 2 folding diagrams, title printed in red and black, woodcut headpieces. Disbound. Text and plates crisp and clean with only very minor marginal dust-soiling, marginal paper flaw to blank fore-edge of leaf A4. ---- Nissen ZBI 1487; Anatomie de la Couleur 107; Brunet II:1597; Choulant-Frank, p. 273; Cohen-De Ricci, p. 427; Franklin, Early Colour Printing pp. 50-51. FIRST EDITION. The first volume, first part of this early and extremely rare journal of science and art--certainly the first periodical with plates printed in color. The volume contains one of Gautier's most dramatic images, a human foetus in a glass realized in starling shades of green and blue; a folding plate that illustrates the spectrum, and Gautier's own color theory. The text contains articles on color printing,… Read More

Paris: Chez Delaguette, 1752. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Vol. 1 (Part I-III) only. 4to (255 x 202 mm). 64, [2], 65-195 pp. 8 (of 11) color mezzotints (some folding) and 3 folding diagrams (lacking the colored plates to pp. 18 and 64 in part I and to p.72 in part II), separate titles to each part, first title printed in red and black, woodcut headpieces. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with two gilt-lettered morocco labels and 5 raised bands gilt in compartments (minor worming to joints, extremities rubbed, upper spine chipped), red-dyed edges, marbled endpapers. Text quite clean and crisp, occasional marginal browning and minor spotting, plates slightly browned in margins (3 plates stronger), marginal paper defects, tiny wormholes to gutter of last pages. Provenance: Everard Urbain De Fossoul (armorial bookplate "Fossoul Mambour de la Cite" to first flyleaf). Except for the 3 wanting plates a very good copy. ---- Nissen ZBI 1487; Anatomie… Read More

Paris: J. B. Brunet et Demonville, 1778. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. Anatomie des parties de la génération, et de ce qui concerne la grossesse et l'accouchement, jointe a l'angéologie de tout le corps humain, avec des planches imprimées en couleur.Seconde édition, augmentée de la coupe de la symphise. Paris: Demonville, 1778. Large Folio (410 x 283 mm). [6], 34, [2] pp. and 10 color mezzotint plates, signed Gautier d'Agoty père, plates I to VIII dated 1773, two plates on the "cup of the symphise" added in this edition: plate IX dated 1773 and Plate X (engraved), dated 1779. Includes the unnumbered leaf "Table Génerale et détachee", the unnumbered errata/privilege leaf, and the final unnumbered leaf "Opération de la Symphise". [Bound with:] Exposition anatomique des maux veneriens sur les parties de l'homme et de la femme, et les remedes les plus usites dans ces sortes de maladies. Paris: J. B. Brunet et Demonville, 1773. 26 pp. and 4 color… Read More

Paris: Gautier, Quillau pere & fils, and Lamesle, 1746. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Large folio (517 x 361 mm and 758 x 539 mm). Two parts in two volumes with 20 fine mezzotint plates printed in four colours. Part I with general title printed in red and black, printed part title, dedication leaf, advertisement/privilege leaf, 9 pp. of explanatory text, additional advertisment leaf and 9 plates; part II with 11 life-size plates and 11 pp. of explanatory text, with each leaf bound before its corresponding plate. Old vellum over pasteboard (recased and resewn, some skilful repairs, minor staining and wear). Very little marginal browning and occasional spotting of text and plates, small minor repairs on versos of large plates, some minor marginal dampstaining and wear in second volume. Provenance: Pierre Amalric (bookplate to front pastedown of part I), sold at Christie's NY (sale 9232, 9 June 1999, lot 42, $23,000). All in… Read More

Paris, Gautier, Quillau, Lamesle, 1746 (1745-1748). *** Première édition de la "Myologie". Le plus bel ouvrage de Jacques Gautier d'Agoty. On y trouve sa célèbre gravure de l'Ange anatomique: une femme vue de dos, disséquée de la nuque au sacrum. L'illustration se compose de 20 magnifiques planches imprimées en quadrichromie, d'après un procédé inventé par Le Blon. Elle sont toutes vernies, afin d'imiter la peinture à l'huile. Les exemplaires avec les planches vernies se vendaient plus chers. C'est, après quelques gravures séparées, le premier ouvrage de Gautier d'Agoty et "sans conteste son chef-d'oeuvre, le livre auquel il accorde le plus de soin, tant dans l'invention de ses images que dans le traitement de la technique." (Anatomie de la couleur). De fait, cette "Myologie" est composée, comme l'indique le titre, de deux séries qui ont été publiées séparément : l'Essai d'anatomie en tableaux imprimés qui représentent au naturel tous les muscles de la face, du col, de la… Read More